Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, Astronomer-Poet of Persia

Metamorphosis of Nothingness

Mitra Ara (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

247 Seiten

2021 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-6448-0 (ISBN)

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Omar Khayyam (11th-12th centuries CE), a celebrated polymath, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher is best known as a Persian poet and author of the Rubā‘iyāt, but his validity as a poet is highly debated. To address this, this book focuses on 100 quatrains that have been authenticated by three known Persian authorities. To bring out Khayyam’s voice, inner feelings and thoughts, this unique bilingual volume provides the Persian originals side-by-side with their literal translations in English. This serves to bring the reader closer to the originals, and allows them to make connections and draw conclusions according to their time and place in life.

Mitra Ara is a cultural historian and Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies, and Founding Director of the Persian Studies program in the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at San Francisco State University, USA. She is the author of Eschatology in the Indo-Iranian Traditions: The Genesis and Transformation of a Doctrine (2008); A Lexicon of the Persian Language of Shiraz (2017); Systematic Guide to Reading and Writing Persian Language (2018); and Do You See What I See (I and II, 2020), in addition to articles, conference presentations, and public speeches. She has been formally recognized for her work in changing the environment of Iranian and Persian studies in public universities and contributing to the scholarship of West Asian studies.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.04.2021
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5275-6448-7 / 1527564487
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-6448-0 / 9781527564480
Zustand	Neuware